On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:55:59AM +0200, Leander Koornneef wrote: > I was wondering if there are any known problems with the man pages for > Debian/MIPS? [...] > If I give the command `man -d <name_of_some_program>` I get lots of > output that looks okay, except for the following bits: > > <snip> > pre-processors `' from default > <snip> > compressing to temporary cat /var/cache/man/cat1/14042 > compressor exited with status 0 > fixing temporary cat's mode > renaming temporary cat to /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.gz > free_hashtab: 2 entries, 2 (100%) unique > > Found 1 man pages > > So, it looks like there is something wrong with the processing/compression.
No, that output is normal. > Also, if I try the groff command from the command-line, it results in a > bus error and nothing else. The same counts for commands like "nroff" > and "troff". That sounds like the bug. If it turns out to be a groff bug, please report it through the BTS ... I haven't heard of this on other architectures. What version of groff are you running? -- Colin Watson (man-db and groff maintainer) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
